So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

The man replied, “This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”

“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”

Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? I tell you the solemn truth, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times!

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”